Coaching practices for What Made This Year Good

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I can picture the handful of moments this year when I felt most alive, but I treat them like nice memories instead of asking what specific setup made them happen
• Good things happened this year and I’m grateful for them, but I genuinely couldn’t tell you what I did to make them happen
• When I try to look back on the whole year, all I can really summon is the last few weeks and the couple of dramatic moments
• When I look at what went wrong this year I catch myself blaming the timing, other people, the circumstances
• Something genuinely good happened today and I noticed I just kept it to myself and moved on

Practices that may help

1. Inventory your peak experiences to find the conditions that produced them
   Your best moments from the past year reveal which conditions you need more of next year.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
2. Go deep on "what went well" — extract the recipe, not just the win
   A win recorded but not analyzed produces no transferable knowledge — identify what specifically caused it.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
3. Gather raw material before reflecting
   Pull the data — calendar, photos, notes, emails — before you begin reflecting, so memory does not do all the work.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
4. Spend more time on "what did not go well" than on what did
   Failure analysis contains the most actionable information in any honest review.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
5. Share one good thing with another person
   Tell one person about a good thing that happened — sharing amplifies the positive experience and builds connection.
   Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
6. Manufacture your own landmark
   When no natural landmark is near, create a meaningful one to mark the break.
   The Fresh Start Effect
7. Three good things (positive emotions pillar)
   Write down three good things that happened today and why they happened.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
8. The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
   Tim Ferriss’s annual review is built on two questions — "What went well this year?" and "What did not go well this year?" — applied systematically across major life domains and answered with enough specificity to produce different decisions next year. It is a practitioner tool without clinical evidence, but its mechanisms (structured reflection, explicit failure review, behavioral specificity) are consistent with goal-review and learning research.
9. Use temporal landmarks to create psychological fresh starts
   New week, new month, new year, or any personally meaningful date can function as a psychological reset that boosts motivation to change.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
10. Keep entries specific, not global
    One precise, specific good thing is worth more than five vague ones — train on detail, not volume.
    Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice

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